The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

The ethics of eating people are blurry at best in the fog of my undead amnesia, but I expect more for such a high price. What I want are the moments I will never have. The warm ones. The living ones.

I miss him so badly it hurts.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Invold, period.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.